Deutsche Post Uses JeeWiz! in Key Role

When Deutsche Post, the largest Postal group in Germany with companies such as DHL,
Post Bank and others needed to construct a proprietary integration infrastructure,
they turned to JeeWiz! to assist. JeeWiz! enabled the company to
ensure that a changing infrastructure would not threaten the stability of
large systems.

The Service Oriented Platform (SOP)
enabled divisions within the group to integrate web
services using this infrastructure. Transport, security, transactions and synch / asynch
properties could all be set in the WSDL-like definition file. By enabling
such a rich infrastructure, the SOP group felt sure that it would enable a
long term solution that would face up to aggressive acquisition schedules from
subsidiary companies, such as DHL.

The robust design for the SOP platform from Deutsche Post,
presented some challenges to any product that hoped to serve as an
integration product. Especially when this product was to be used to simplify
the introduction of such a platform. Such a product needed to conform to some critical
prerequisites:

The product had to be able to adapt to the complex deployment environment.
Most of the business applications making use of this integration platform
would be critical business systems. Such systems could not tolerate errors
in operational environments.

No significant learning curve. Deutsche Post found that to train a developer
for the first time to work on the infrastructure includes several weeks of
mentoring. This was problematic since it increased the effort - and therefore
the cost and risk for development teams to take on the SOP infrastructure.

A code generation tool had to reduce the cost and risk in introducing a new
infrastructure. In this sense JeeWiz! excelled. Throughout the
development of the infrastructure, the code generation capabilities of JeeWiz!
could be adjusted fairly straightforwardly.
By enabling the infrastructure to read the definition and automatically generate
the client accessors, JeeWiz! could prove its power in an operational
environment. It was critical to be able to generate a client tester for services
so that these could be tested and optionally also deployed to the production
environment.
When the SOP platform upgrades its version numbers, JeeWiz!
should be able to rebuild the infrastructure code needed. This would enable
consumers to simply "rebuild" the infrastructure when there is a version upgrade.
This feature would ensure that the SOP platform is not constrained by operational
code to move forward to implement new features.

The SOP platform includes several 3rd party tools. These tools need to
be integrated in the code that is generated by the infrastructure. By allowing
seamless integration, JeeWiz! would further insulate the operational
environment from changes in this aspect.

Enable legacy to be wrapped. Legacy systems will need to be transferred
to the SOP platform. The cost and risk of such a move will be included in the
business case made for such a move. By reducing both the cost & risk, JeeWiz!
enables the business case for these moves to be made.

For large data transforms, the SOP platform already had some commercial tools
available to do this. However, sometimes the trivial data conversions
does not necessarily mandate such a heavy handed solution. In these cases
JeeWiz! enabled users to make quick and simple data transformations
to be done.